Optical and
kinetic art developed hand in hand, in an abstract, geometrical language of form, using new industrial materials and techniques, and share a strong interest for the anti-static and the direct sensory experience.
Not exact matches
Rebelling against the rigidity of Modernist painting in the linear, reactionary mode of
developing new
art movements that was at the time à la mode, Breer decided to take change as his own modernist absolute, a choice which would lead him through
kinetic sculpture to film.
Today Op and
Kinetic art continues to
develop with the next generation of young artists.
For their upcoming group show at Wood Street Galleries, members of the Dutch
art collective Macular have
developed four
kinetic light installations.
The mood swing, however, could be attributed to a growing international interest in the elegant forms emerging in the new and popular
kinetic art and the effect of technologies
developed during World War II that had been taken up by designers such Charles and Ray Eames, who had experimented with fibreglass, plastic resin and wire, to produce new types of furniture and home accessories that were stronger, but lighter in feel than anything that had existed before.
The software manifests itself as an interactive installation, as a
kinetic sculpture or as endless
developing software
art on a screen.
Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and
kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was
developing abstract metal sculpture.
Other
developing postmodernist artists of the day included: the assemblage artist Arman (1928 - 2005), the Lettrist Francois Dufrene (1930 - 82), the plastics sculptor Martial Raysse (b. 1936), the object artist Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930), the
Kinetic art activist Jean Tinguely (1925 - 1991) and his wife Niki de Saint - Phalle (1930 - 2002), the avant - garde sculptor Cesar (1921 - 1998) and the empaquetage artists Christo & Jeanne - Claude (1935 - 2009).
INSTALLATION BY ADRIAN PRITCHARD CHURCH STREET / COOKSON STREET BLACKPOOL NEW LAUNCH DATE 2nd October and runs for 3 weeks until 22nd October Meet the artist 7th October 6.30 pm Recently Badept artist Adrian Pritchard has
developed art works and
kinetic installations using viscous materials as a means for the viewer to engage in the ever changing qualities -LSB-...]